Tuesday, September 30, 2008

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) -- New York Giants backup running back Danny Ware has been arrested andcharged with an alcohol offense while walking in the road.

The 23-year-old former Georgia player was booked at the ClarkeCounty Jail early Sunday and released four hours later on $500 bond.

Police say Ware and a woman were standing in the street talking andtraffic had to steer around them. The police report said Wareacknowledged he was drinking and his breath test showed he had ablood-alcohol content of 0.152. He was charged with pedestrian underthe influence and pedestrian walking in the road.

Ware is in his second season with the Giants. The Giants had a bye last weekend.

Monday, September 29, 2008

Stocks Take Historic FallIna vote that shook the government, Wall Street and markets around theworld, the House on Monday defeated a $700 billion emergency rescue forthe nation's financial system, leaving both parties and the Bushadministration scrambling to pick up the pieces. The Dow Jonesindustrials plunged nearly 800 points, the most ever for a single day.

Ina season with little to celebrate, his teammates gave him a rousingwelcome - one he had waited his entire 18-year career to receive.Mussina had just become the oldest pitcher to win 20 games in a seasonfor the first time as the Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 6-2 Sunday inthe opener of a rain-delayed day-night doubleheader.

"Thisis one of those things that I think will take a while to sink in," saidMussina, who has won at least 18 games five other times.

Theplayoff-bound Red Sox won the second game 4-3 on Jonathan Van Every'sbases-loaded single with two outs in the 10th off Jose Veras (5-3).Devern Hansack (1-0) pitched the 10th for the win as Boston preventedthe Yankees (89-73) from reaching 90 wins for the seventh straightseason. New York finished five games back of the wild-card Red Sox andmissed the postseason for the first time since 1993.

Lessthan three months before his 40th birthday, Mussina (20-9) gave upthree hits in six shutout innings in his final start of the season. Hereturned to the field to bring out the lineup card for the second game.

Lastyear he had the highest ERA of his career (5.15). This season, it was3.37 after he allowed one earned run in 16 innings over his last threestarts.

New Jersey's rural areas have the highest suicide rates in the state, according to a state health department study.

The report analyzed state suicide rates from 2004 to 2006. It foundthe 10 counties below Interstate 195, along with the areas in NewJersey's rural northwest corner, have higher incidents of suicides.Cape May County, at the far southern tip of the state, topped the list.

The higher suicide rate in sparsely populated areas mirrorsnationwide patterns, but was still a surprise to the director of thestate office which analyzes injury data.

"What we call a rural area in New Jersey is not really all thatrural, compared to places like Montana," Katherine Hempstead, thedirector of the Office of Injury Surveillance and Prevention, told TheSunday Star Ledger of Newark.

Hempstead suggested one possible reason for higher suicide rates in rural areas: more access to guns.

Seven counties with the highest suicide rates from 2003 to 2005 also had firearm ownership rates above the state average.

The state study found 45 percent of suicides in rural Sussex Countywere by gunshot, compared to fewer than 16 percent of suicides in urbanEssex County.

"One aspect of rural life is greater likelihood of owning a gun, andwith owning a gun comes greater risk of suicide," Hempstead said.

Other reasons offered by experts include rural attitudes that causesome to shun counseling, and the difficulties rural people encountertrying to seek seeking mental health services in a private manner.

Shea It Ain't So... Again...Metscollapse, the sequel. Doomed by a dreadful bullpen that failedthem again Sunday, the New York Mets completed their second consecutiveSeptember slide with a 4-2 loss to Florida that knocked them out ofplayoff contention in the final game at Shea Stadium.

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More Anxiety on Wall StreetElationin the financial markets over the $700 billion bank bailout planevaporated Monday and was replaced by all-too-familiar anxiety,pummeling stocks and sending oil prices to their biggest one-day gain.

Yankees owner George Steinbrenner caught him in the act, and Negronwas locked up, but not before Steinbrenner extended his generosity andmade Negron bat boy for that night's game. He went on to becomeSteinbrenner's special assistant and works for the Boss to this day.

Signs of Relief on Wall StreetWallStreet finally found reason to rally Thursday, soaring on a report thatthe Bush administration was considering setting up a government agencyto soak up bad loans and mortgages. But it was far from clear that thegovernment had settled on any solution to the worst crisis on WallStreet in decades.

Taken on Sept.17, 2008A congressional panel has taken tough swings at the New York Yankees and New York City government over a new stadium for the Yankees. But neither the team nor the city budged from their positions on the $1.3 billion structure.Rep. Dennis Kucinich said Thursday he found "waste and abuse of public dollars" in the financing of the new stadium under construction in the South Bronx.Kucinich is an Ohio Democrat who heads the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. He charged that city officials misrepresented to the IRS the value of the property, helping them to get special tax deals from the federal government and in effect dumping the cost of construction onto taxpayers. No one from the either the city or the Yankees spoke at the hearing.

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Stocks Take Another BeatingWallStreet stumbled again Wednesday, with anxieties about the financialsystem still running high after the government bailed out insurerAmerican International Group Inc. The Dow Jones industrial averagedropped about 280 points.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Film Society of LincolnCenter will honor Tom Hanks in its annual gala tribute, citing theactor's talent of making "a good man compelling."

Thetwo-time Academy Award winner will be feted April 27 at Alice TullyHall, which is being renovated but scheduled to reopen Feb. 22. It willbe the society's 36th annual gala, following last year's celebration ofMeryl Streep.

"There are so few actors whohave been able to make the struggle and drama of being a good mancompelling," Kent Jones, the society's associate director ofprogramming, said Monday. "With his talent, his presence, hisversatility, his sense of humor, he has set a very high standard forhis fellow actors."

The 52-year-old Hanks won best-actor Oscars for 1993's "Philadelphia" and 1994's "Forrest Gump."

Meltdown on Wall StreetTheupheaval in the American financial system sent shock waves through thestock market Monday, producing the worst day on Wall Street in sevenyears as investors digested the failure of one of its most venerablebanks and wondered which domino would

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Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Gustav Rips Through LouisianaHurricaneGustav slammed into the heart of Louisiana's fishing and oil industrywith 110 mph winds Monday, delivering only a glancing blow to NewOrleans that raised hopes the city would escape the kind ofcatastrophic flooding brought by Katrina three years ago.

AP- John McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin, said Monday her 17-year-oldunmarried daughter was five months pregnant, the latest in a string ofdisclosures that left the McCain campaign defending the thoroughness ofits background check of the little-known Alaska governor.

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